Sarah Jaffe

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It doesn't matter what they ask. Stick to your talking points.

The Stories Behind the Stories Email from Workplace Justice Lab The impact, organizing response and lessons on the Minneapolis ICE siege   The Month in Review: Minneapolis by Janice Fine   This month’s newsletter focuses on the ICE

Wanted to share the Workplace Justice Lab's latest piece on the story behind the story of the Minneapolis occupation through the eyes of our close partners in organizing, government and small business.
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the war at home If you had asked me before this week which city in the US could pull off a general strike I would have told you “Minneapolis.” Or really, the Twin Cities.

As always, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social has been on top of Minneapolis organizing:

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When we were evaluating them at the hospital I worked at over a decade ago, surgeons tried them and the response was "I guess I could see how this could be useful with a lot of caveats, but it's a lot easier to see how it will be terrible and make us look like assholes and creeps" and that was that.

“General strikes are rare and something like lightning in a bottle: They tend to overspill their boundaries, becoming, in historically specific moments, something more than just the sum of their parts.” - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social

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ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe

The Minnesota general strike demonstrated the leading place the labour movement is playing in opposing ICE. @sarahljaffe.bsky.social's interview @poltheoryother.bsky.social provides a history of the current moment through exploring the central role of migrant workers in American trade unionism.

The proposed changes to immigration rules in the UK will be a real test for unions.

Unison has had a huge increase in membership among migrant health and care workers, but the party it's affiliated to is pushing rules that will destroy the lives of these people. www.unison.org.uk/news/2025/12...

While it has been getting better over the last decade, large part of the UK labour movement suffers from the same problem that @sarahljaffe.bsky.social talks about here.

I recently wrote this on the barriers to organising migrant farm workers:
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This is the best piece I’ve read diving into the community organizing going on in Minnesota - from grassroots activists to labor to neighbors. It’s so empowering to see this level of rising amidst resistance. It prefigures renewal.

"The US labour movement often has been guilty of assuming that immigrant workers are unorganisable... Actually the immigrant worker organisations have been the ones leading the labour movement..." - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social

If Anyone Can Pull Off a General Strike, It’s Minnesotans The massive outpouring of support for Friday’s day of action against ICE is something that just comes naturally to residents of the North Star State.

As Minnesota kicks off its day of freedom from ICE, my piece on how the state's movements built power to be ready for this moment, and the closest thing to a real general strike in maybe a century newrepublic.com/article/2053...

ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 01/20/2026 · 59m

ICYMI - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the recent history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts):

Capitalism Without Humans As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, "machine breaking" as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.

"What happens when U.S. capitalism simply needs fewer humans?"

"The flaming Waymo, then, is [..] a symbol of the way that more and more people are being rendered surplus."

"[E]xpect to see more machine-breaking."
#USA #Labour #Protest #Transportation #Technology #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

You are invited to attend a press conference where the University of Minnesota Graduate Labor Union (GLU-UE Local 1105) and other UMN campus workers and students will call on the president of the UMN to close all campuses on January 23rd for the ICE OUT! Day of Action. WHAT: GLU-UE Local 1105 and other University of Minnesota workers and student groups are calling for the UMN to shut down on January 23rd so that workers and students can participate in the ICE OUT! Day of Action march in Minneapolis on 1/23/26. WHO: Executive board of GLU-UE Local 1105, worker leaders from AFSCME 3800, Teamsters 320, and campus undergraduate organizations. WHEN: Wednesday, 1/21/26, at 11AM. WHERE: Eastern Steps of Johnston Hall. WHY: ICE is terrorizing our communities and killing people in our streets. Over 50 unions and other Twin Cities organizations have called for a general strike on 1/23 to kick ICE out of MN and end the racists attacks on our communities. Workers and students at the UMN want to participate in this Day of Action and if UMN cancelled classes, closed campuses, and provided a paid holiday to workers, it would enable this community to participate in this momentous march to get ICE out of MN.

Breaking: Three unions are calling on the University of Minnesota to shut down for Jan. 23. They include the Graduate Labor Union Electrical Workers Local 1105, AFSCME 3800, & Teamsters Local 320. Campus undergraduate organizations are joining the call. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...

ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 01/20/2026 · 59m

📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:

The Most Important Labor Story Right Now Is in Minnesota—It Might Be the Model We All Need A strategic alignment of major networks of unions and community groups in Minnesota have worked together for more than a decade to leverage their collective power.

Minnesota’s proposed January 23 statewide shutdown didn’t materialize overnight.

In 2024, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social reported on how unions and community groups spent years building the coordination and trust that now make a total shutdown possible—and powerful.

A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country

One of the things that genuinely shocked me as I read through surveillance logs for the police is how much of their energy and attention is dedicated to shutting down vigils and other ceremonies of remembrance.

“So let’s stay brave, stay committed, and stay together. We will remember the fallen, fight like hell for the living, and when this terrible moment is over, we will still have each other, our potential, and the hope of building a better world.”

@sarahljaffe.bsky.social

Listening to this stellar book on my way to and from work every day. This morning I was wandering around our shop muttering “there’s more to life than this!”

Probably listening to it during my commute isn’t the best idea.

Or maybe it is…. 🤔

in excellent company here 😍

If we were given the time to grieve properly, what might we decide to change? — @sarahljaffe.bsky.social

A little holiday newsletter, my lovelies. open.substack.com/pub/sarahlja...

my life 😅

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Ask all the professors being laid off, the underemployed adjuncts, the PhD students working in service industries about the "idea machine" 🙃

Episode 5: Bandwidth is a Bad Metaphor | Heart Reacts Get more from Heart Reacts on Patreon

using machines as metaphors for humans has gotten us nowhere good www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

We have not run out of good ideas, we have a global inequality where good ideas cannot get the necessary supports into becoming solutions. Good ideas are everywhere if we would just allocate resources to trying some out. AI cannot make new ideas. It cannot have ANY ideas.